From: Jeff Moore <lists@...>
Date: 2012-10-29T05:18:26+09:00
Subject: Re: File.readable? and /proc

Igor Pirnovar wrote in post #1081714:
> Jeff Moore wrote in post #1081712:
>
>> It's the inconsistency with:
>>
>> root@nail:/projects/proc_fs# ls -al /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register
>> --w------- 1 root root 0 2012-10-28 08:24
>> /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register
>>
>> that I find mostly surprising.
>
> Well, that's how Unix works. I have two objections:
>
> (1) You should not be using superuser account for regular work!
> (2) You have no business running irb in /proc filesystem!
>
> If you do either of these things, you better not be surprised, ever!

And if you 'regular work' involves interrogating the /proc file system, 
then what?

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